More than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland. They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”

Thank you to everyone across this country who is standing up to ICE and supporting their neighbors. I love you all.

My unending respect and admiration for those folks who migrated to the US under many different hardships to make a life only to be met with hate and terror. Their bravery and determination should inspire us all rather than fuel grievance.

“Tell us where the non whites are so we can kidnap them at gunpoint” sounds like a free country to the Roberts Court

My favorite three songs from a Dis- band. This nineties classic was a split ep I only had recorded on an 8 track cassette! Glad to find it online but would love an actual copy of the record. youtu.be/rx3vQcj6WdE

ICYMI: We fought in court to protect voting in Oregon – and we won. Voting by mail is a safe, secure, and beloved Oregon value, and we’ll continue to fight for Oregon values every day. Read more: https://ow.ly/48AX50XVLWZ #orpol Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read

imagine looking at all the videos of ice abuse, the public outcry and the polling on ice and coming to the conclusion that the problem is rhetoric being too harsh about ice. @thirdway.bsky.social lives in a delusional state and theyve helped to ruin the democratic party.

As ICE terrorizes communities, remember that some of Trump's biggest supporters are private prison corporations making bank off his deportation agenda. Trump has unleashed billions of dollars worth of funding for these companies while offering them "no-bid" contracts. Cashing in on cruelty.

Ice on ICE violence

Cape Arago sunset and Sunset Bay from our Solstice coast trip

Silver and Golden Falls from our Solstice coast trip. Twenty miles outside Coos Bay.

From our Solstice coast trip. Shore Acres State park lights.

Probably 500+ at the Ice Out protest today in Eugene OR. sixty percent of cars driving by honked in support’

Where all all the 2nd amendment patriots who need all those weapons to fight gov’t tyranny? Where are the militias? No armed patrols of neighborhoods with populations of immigrants? No armed takeovers of gov’t buildings demanding an end to unconstitutional tyranny? Or are they the ones joining ICE?

Born in 1974, into a culture of guns, hunting and the cowboy myth, my whole life I’ve heard right wing 2nd Amendment nuts proclaim that jack booted thugs will be coming for them. Now that the gov’t thugs are kidnapping people, terrorizing folks and murdering them…absolute silence. Racist cowards!

Minneapolis.

Masked ICE agents, it seems, are now killing American citizens on American streets. Any Democrat who doesn’t support abolishing ICE should be instantly primaried and run out of the party. This is non negotiable. You cannot support the continued existence of this fascist murderous secret police.

Samuel Alito flew two flags used by insurrectionists. Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election. Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the January 6th plot. It's a stain on our nation that this has effectively been forgotten.

Paul Singer, whose firm owns the US subsidiary of Venezuela's state-owned oil company, spent millions in 2024 to re-elect Trump. Now, after Trump's invasion of Venezuela on behalf of Big Oil, he's set to cash in on his investment. A government of, by, and for the billionaires.

Schumer really needs to be replaced as leader. We do not need, and this moment won't survive "I am disappointed." That's all he can muster, and it makes him the wrong person to lead the opposition to fascism. For the good of the country, he needs to step aside and let a brawler take his place.

one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it

I would be remiss if I did not add The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman to my list of the best mystery novels from 2025. Finished it after I wrote my list. Music up next.

But, hey, it’s health care, housing and SNAP that cost too much.

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

2025 Favorite Graphic Novels: Spent-Alison Bechdel 49 Days-Agnes Lee Lunar New Year Love Story- Gene Luen Yang and Leuyen Pham

2025 Favorite Non-fiction: How to Read Now-Elaine Castillo Stories Are Weapons-Annalee Newitz I read more but it wasn’t an exciting crop.

2025 Favorite Fantasy/SF: A Master of Djinn-P Djeli Clark Tea and Tomes series-Rebecca Thorne Haunt Sweet Home-Sarah Pinsker The Tainted Cup and A Drop of Corruption-Robert Jackson Bennet The Teller of Small Fortunes-Julie Leong

2025 Favorite Mysteries: Detective Aunty-Uzma Jalaluddin The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses-Malka Older Blessed Water-Margot Douahiy Dead in the Frame-Stephen Spotiswood Murder by Memory-Olivia Waite Glory Daze-Danielle Arceneaux Murder on the Marlowe Belle-Robert Thorogood

2025 Favorite Novels Read: The South-Tash Aw Mothers and Sons-Adam Haslett Tilt-Emma Pattee The Emperor of Gladness-Ocean Vuong Woodworking-Emily St. James Small Rain-Garth Greenwell Fair Play-Louise Hegarty There is a Rio Grande in Heaven- Ruben Reyes Jr. (bonus short story collection).

An essential development over the past decade-plus is that the ignorant went from feeling chastened when their ignorance was revealed to banding together and deciding that, actually, they were right. They might disagree at times, but they agreed that ignorance itself was an indicator of trust.

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I’ll do books later but best podcasts of 2025 are definitely If Books Could Kill and In Bed With the Right. inbedwiththeright.bsky.social ifbookspod.bsky.social

America's richest 10% now hold 60% of the nation's wealth. The bottom half of America? It holds just 6%. Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.

Another story that blames the Left for the unreasonable reaction of rabid right wingers. We bought a Prius in 2006 and my partner was terrorized on the freeway daily. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/b...

America has 925 billionaires as of this year. Collectively they have a record $6.9 trillion in wealth. The bottom 50% of Americans control $4.2 trillion in wealth. When 925 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

Hearing from you helps us make sure that we’re serving Oregonians as effectively and efficiently as we can. We received over 31,000 calls, emails, and letters from people across Oregon and beyond this year. Scroll through to see the top themes. We look forward to hearing from you more in 2026!

"America’s 902 billionaires are collectively worth more than $6.7 trillion, the most wealth ever amassed by the nation’s ultra-rich, according to Forbes." "Trump’s Cabinet is the wealthiest in US history, with a combined net worth of $7.5 billion." wapo.st/4ipXaBd

Everyone involved in the publication and promotion of this book should be embarrassed. It's not a "harsh truth" that COVID mitigation was a mistake, it's ghoulish and false.

incredible that the oldest scam in the book — “look away from the greed and poor leadership that destroy your chance to make a career, it is the [blanks] that stole your job!” — still works

The media needs to stop writing headlines like “The CDC changes course on vaccines and autism” and “The CDC defends measles response”. NONE of this is coming from legitimate scientists at the CDC. ALL of it is coming from RFK Jr. Every such headline is causing further harm to public health.

Excuse me, I forgot that “working class” means “white and male” and that “class politics” means “affirming racism and sexism.”

It’s not like I didn’t already think this situation was really fucking bad, but I was beginning to think it was way fucking worse.

Very important to hate fascists more than you hate liberals.

I’m a punk rocker, sure, but I do love a lot of metal. I do not enjoy guitar solos however. Solution: just like there are so-called clean edits of profanity laden songs and albums, there should be “Lead Free” versions of metal songs! Problem solved’ #punk #metal

The right’s preferred gender ideology—one of male supremacy, women’s exclusion from dignity, citizenship, and vast spheres of public life, and an enforced heterosexuality of eroticized domination—is much more prescriptive, aggressive, and ubiquitously pushed than anything coming from trans people.

How many fucking times have I heard a commentator, activist, journalist, politician, or social media random proclaim that “there are finally signs that Republicans are splitting with Trump and MAGA?” Too many to count or believe over the last decade plus. Sigh.

Data suggests family dramas bear a less than 10 percent resemblance to actual human families, which is unsurprising and also a relief, considering all the murders.

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Yesterday, a federal court ruled in our favor to protect Planned Parenthood funding – but our fight isn’t over. Oregonians are doing everything we can do keep clinic doors open for our communities, and we’ll continue to share updates. #orpol #plannedparenthood